Police, including the Fort Collins SWAT team, surround the mobile home where Levi Keeler was arrested after a six-hour standoff on April 27. / Robert Allen/The Coloradoan

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Five days of smoking methamphetamine without sleep led to threats and a six-hour SWAT standoff at a south Fort Collins mobile home, according to statements in an arrest-warrant affidavit.

Levi Keeler was arrested on his 28th birthday April 27 after his girlfriend told police he was planning to cut his throat with a machete he kept under his mattress. She also said he told her he would barricade himself in the house and blow it up if police responded, according to the affidavit.

“(The girlfriend) reported that Levi has not slept in the past five days and started piling furniture up against the door when she left for work this morning,” according to the affidavit.

Keeler remains in the Larimer County Jail on a charge of felony menacing, with bond set at $5,000 cash-only.

The SWAT incident led to the closure of Kyle Avenue north of Trilby Road, blocking traffic to the nearby Larimer Humane Society and disrupting Saturday plans for neighboring residents. The gas line to the residence on the 400 block of Vivian Street was cut off, as Keeler told police he had tampered with it to blow up the house, according to the affidavit and radio reports from dispatch the day of the standoff.

Keller’s girlfriend also told police he threatened that if she came home, he would “barricade them both in the house and neither one of them would leave,” according to the affidavit.

Neighbors recalled a similarly substantial police presence at the Keeler home last October when he was arrested on charges of felony menacing. He later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three years of probation.

In 2011, Keeler pleaded guilty to giving false information to a pawn broker, a felony, and was given a year of probation that was revoked when the earlier menacing charges were filed.